The watch was reported stolen, but the owner also reported to law enforcement that he traced the watch a few miles from his home.

Detectives said they were tracking recent burglaries to the same home, making the additional report "icing on the cake" to retrieve a search warrant for the home at the center of the investigation.

"We determined there was a suspect who would bring pillowcases of property that did not belong inside the residence," Detective David Brown with the Lee County Sheriff's Office said. "While we're doing search warrants, we look back at prior cases and look to see what specific items were missing. We just happened to find a lot of it at this one location."

The sheriff's office obtained a search warrant for the home and found 78 items that were recently reported stolen, hidden inside pillowcases and at the home.

Within days, deputies and detectives helped reunite the items with their owners, recent victims of burglaries in Lehigh Acres.

"There are bad people and good people in this world," one victim said to his children when the burglary happened at their home. "The bad people are going to try their best to get away with certain things.That's why we have police officers. They will take care of the bad people."

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